OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers	80
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires	63
Special issue editorial team	49
The missing wind in wildfire science	40
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements	37
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia	36
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public	33
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression	33
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	31
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach	28
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States	27
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour	27
Fuelling future fires: predicting variation in fuel hazard and availability across an environmental gradient	26
Still standing: a synthesis of local characteristics influencing housing survivability during WUI wildfires	25
Effects of fire management on biomass and debris carbon stocks in Australia’s northern savannas: results from long-term trials	25
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume	25
Understanding variability in heat yields of wet sclerophyll forest fuels	24
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia	24
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	23
Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger	22
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland	22
Variability and consistency in wildfire susceptibility: insights from a national compilation	21
Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation	21
LPG stored at the wildland–urban interface: recent events and the effects of jet fires and BLEVE	21
The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: exploring unnecessary exposure to risk	20

An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios	20
A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada	19
The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold	19
Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia	19
Sequences of large-scale meteorological patterns associated with wildfire spread events in the Northwestern United States	18
Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†	18
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2†	17
Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments	17
Fire severity and plant productivity recovery in a mixed grass prairie wildfire driven by extreme winds	17
Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation†	17
Containment lines, PODs and suppression success: a case study of the 2021 Schneider Springs Fire	17
Addressing firefighter concerns: unraveling the complexities of bushfire smoke composition and toxicity	17
Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement	17
BARA: cellular automata simulation of multidimensional smouldering in peat with horizontally varying moisture contents	17
Probabilistic prediction of post-fire debris-flow runout and implications for prefire assessments of post-fire hazards	16
Table of Contents	16
Comprehensive methodology for tracking burning firebrands in a vertical wind tunnel using multi-view video analysis	16
Wildfire aerial thermal image segmentation using unsupervised methods: a multilayer level set approach	16
Effects of fuel bed structure on heat transfer mechanisms within and above porous fuel beds in quiescent flame spread scenarios	16
Firebrand burning under wind: an experimental study	16
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	16
Categorizing weather patterns associated with lightning-caused ignition clusters in Canada	16
Incorporating airborne LiDAR into reliable and scalable garden wildfire hazard assessments at the wildland–urban interface	15
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 1)	15
Field-based generic empirical flame length–fireline intensity relationships for wildland surface fires	15
Review of thermal behaviour of firebrands and their role in fuel bed and structure ignition	15
Restoring fire management to Australian deserts: progress after a decade of burning	15
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes†	15
The role of helicity and fire–atmosphere turbulent energy transport in potential wildfire behaviour	15
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4)	15
Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management	14
Calculating fire danger of cured grasslands in temperate climates – the elements of the Grassland Fire Index (GLFI)	14
Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021	14
Impact of fire suppressant on seed germination and seedling emergence of native and introduced flora from a Western Australian eucalypt woodland	14
Effect of moisture content and canopy height on flammability of gorse (Ulex europaeus) shrubs measured in a large-scale oxygen consumption calorimeter	13
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems	13
Vegetation flammability contributes to alternative stable states in arid Australia	13
Assessing the effectiveness of prescribed burning in limiting the spread of future wildfires	13
Burned vegetation recovery trajectory and its driving factors using satellite remote-sensing datasets in the Great Xing’An forest region of Inner Mongolia	13
Exploring the influence of the Keetch–Byram Drought Index and McArthur’s Drought Factor on wildfire incidence in Victoria, Australia	13
Table of Contents	12
The 1986 Annaburroo experimental grassland fires: data	12
Risk perceptions after wildfires: insights from Bijie, China and comparisons with other countries	12
Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype†	12
Can the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS)-1978 of the United States be effective in other regions? Israel as a case study	12
Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area	11
Comparative performance of dNBR and dNDVI for burn severity mapping via large wildfires of 2021 in Türkiye	11
Atmospheric dryness as a coordinated driver of fire activity and biomass accumulation in northwestern boreal Canada	11
The response of reptiles and mammals to fire-driven vegetation succession in semi-arid Triodia-mallee woodlands	11
Assessing soil heating beneath prescribed burns undertaken by teams according to the first UK vegetation fire standards	11

Between a rock and a hot place: do surface shelters facilitate survivable conditions for small vertebrates during prescribed fire?	11
Developing an impact index for the Australian Fire Danger Rating System: predicting potential structure loss from wildfires	11
Offsetting the noise: a framework for applying phenological offset corrections in remotely sensed burn severity assessments	10
Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why	10
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas. Part 2 – fire hazard assessment of the different land management scenarios	10
Decadal scale fire dynamics in savannas and forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India	10
Fire weather severity in southern Africa is increasing faster and more extensively in the late than in the early dry season	10
Detecting burnt severity and vegetation regrowth classes using a change vector analysis approach: a case study in the southern part of Sumatra, Indonesia	10
Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables	10
Archetypes and change in wildfire risk perceptions, behaviours and intentions among adults in Tasmania, Australia	10
Backing fire spread in dry eucalypt litter in a combustion wind tunnel	10
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	10
Endangered marsupial predator shows resilience to infrequent fire in the absence of introduced predators	10
Quantifying the flammability of living plants at the branch scale: which metrics to use?	9
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV7	9
A review of carbon dynamics and REDD+ projects in the Miombo Ecoregion, Africa: opportunities and challenges	9
Impact of wildfire smoke, heat stress and sleep deprivation on the brain health of wildland firefighters	9
Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires	9
A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands	9
Changes in visits to wildlife water developments by bighorn sheep and mule deer following a wildland fire	9
Empirical modelling of surface fire rate of spread in Pinus koraiensis plantations – a laboratory simulation study	9
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems	9
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†	9
From forecast skill to economic value: sub-hourly wildfire potential forecasting across Australian regions	9
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii Rupr.) forest that experienced a mixed-severity wildfire	9
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers	9
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed	9
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update	9
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework	8
A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants	8
Five Suns. A Fire History of Mexico	8
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review	8
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm	8
Causal Analysis of Fire Regime Drivers in California	8
Assessing the suppression difficulty of wildland fires for initial attack response	8
Coupling duff development with tree litter and downed fuel inputs, decomposition and fire consumption in a long-term prescribed fire experiment in Florida	8
Table of Contents	8
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!	8
Fire and climate: the multiplicative impacts of climates changing	8
Fireline production rate of handcrews in wildfires of the Spanish Mediterranean region	8
Social science to advance wildfire adaptation in the southwestern United States: a review and future research directions	8
Table of Contents	8
Table of Contents	8
Reviewing Stephen J. Pyne’s To the Last Smoke series: putting the people in the pyrocene	7
Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia	7
Three fuel models for predicting urban fire spread – a stopgap for emergency management in the US	7
Predicting immediate and delayed fire-induced mortality of Pinus monticola and Pseudotsuga menziesii saplings using a pyro-ecophysiology fire severity approach	7
A conservation-significant threatened mammal uses fire exclusions and shifts ranges in the presence of prescribed burning	7
Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change	7
Conifer encroachment increases foliar moisture content in a northwestern California oak woodland	7
Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem	7
Characterizing fire history on military land using machine learning and landsat imagery	7
Short-term spatio-temporal forecasting of human-caused wildland fire occurrence: an errors in variables approach	7
A comment on the use of visually assessed fuel hazard ratings and scores for Australian fire management and research	7
An evaluation of wildland fire simulators used operationally in Australia	7
Laboratory benchmark of low-cost portable gas and particle analysers at the source of smouldering wildfires	7
A national accounting framework for fire and carbon dynamics in Australian savannas	7
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations	7
Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States	7
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria	7
Economic efficiency of fuel treatments in western US forests: a methodological framework	7
Intermittent fireline behaviour over porous vegetative media in different crossflow conditions	7
Experimental and numerical fire behaviour analysis in Eucalyptus globulus trees	7
A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning	7
Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy	7
Fatigue in wildland firefighting: relationships between sleep, shift characteristics, and cognitive function	7